This rare Saint-Cloud egg cup (coquetier) with gadrooned moulding has a balustroid stem set on a domed pedestal foot.

The use of gadrooning was popular at the Saint-Cloud manufactory from the earliest time, and imitates the moulded decoration found on contemporary silver wares, whilst the creamy, slightly ivory soft paste body had a colour resembling the desirable Chinese porcelain wares produced at Dehua.

The same gadrooned moulding occurs on Saint-Cloud wine and glass coolers of this period. See the white porcelain wine coolers (7201, 33282 and 6067) at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris.

Unmarked.

Condition: Excellent - no damage or restoration, just tiny potting and firing irregularities, such as pinholes and a clay tear to the underside.